Talk:List of LGBT characters in comics

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Name	First appearance	Year	Identified as LGBT: Issue	Year	Company	Note	Orientation
Batman	Detective Comics #27	1939	Batman #200	1993	DC comics	Confirmed bachelor in relationship with Nightwing	Gay
Wonder woman	All Star Comics #8	1941	The Brave and the Bold #28	1960	DC comics	Lives in open lesbian relationsip with Wonder Girl	Lesbian

Angel

The following entry was removed here with the reasoning that an "allusion to an old standby in drama not a statement of intent."

Warren Worthington III, AKA Angel - Falls in love with Jean Grey while Jean is disguised as a man in Neil Gaiman's alternative universe miniseries Marvel 1602.

It doesn't matter to me whether the item is in or out and I'm not familiar with the storyline, but it seems like when a guy "falls in love" with another guy, it's pretty gay. And the fact that this occurred in an "alternative universe" is noted, so no one is asserting that the character is gay in all continuities. Again, I haven't read the miniseries, but I thought this might be worth some discussion by those who have. Thanks. — TAnthony^Talk 23:05, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the suggestion at the parent page, and agree with the other additions and with this ones removal. Angel falling for Jean Grey as a man was a typical heternormative storyline seen in many works (from Shakespeare to Blackadder). Any questioning of his sexuality Angel experiences was solved in the reveal that Jean was a woman all along, showing that Angels preference was fixed and he wasn't even slightly Bi (and that orientation has a psychic abilitiy so that "real" straight people would want to have sex with women even if the women is perfecly disguised as a man). If anything, it shows that trangender people are fooling themselves when thinking they can pass, as even the world most powerful telepaths can be subconciously detected - not Gaiman's best work imo.

The alternative universe is a red herring in this case, it is the "disguised" that counts, unlike the Ultimate universe for example, in which Colossus really is gay.Yobmod (talk) 09:39, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Subpage

Subpage: I moved this to the LGBT themes in comics subpage (link in archive box on talk), while it gets worked on. At least until the formatting is finished being made consistant. Also getting the main page to GA if anyone want to join in.Yob Mod 10:19, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]